jimmaz's Profile
About Me
Penname:
jimmaz
Location:
Rhode Island, US
Name:
Jim Maz
Preferred language:
English
School:
Yes
About me:
I write for the pleasure, the intellectual challenges, and the likelihood that somehow this will all survive me. Truly not one for fame (though fortune is OK), writing provides an outlet to reach so many minds as other authors have reached mine. Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Capote, McCarthy, and countless others are responsible for moving, enlightening, and entertaining me. If I can play a small part in this art, I would love for that to happen.
On a separate note, I find that what I tend to write generally takes on the flavor or one or more of these three focuses; those being death, love and power. Then again, what else is there?
My claim to fame:
I know this will sound a bit silly, but it is none-the-less remarkable to see. I can cup my hands together, fill the space between with water, and shoot the water out 30 feet or more (really) in a laser like stream. I am sure there are other talents lying beneath the surface, but that's all I can come up with now.
My Projects
Short stories with an edgeI want to put together a collection of short stories that make people think. We don't lea...
My Submissions
My Favorites: Reading and Writing
What I like to read:
Biographies and Memoirs, Crime, History, Horror, Human Interest, Humor, Literature, Mysteries and Thrillers, Politics and Government
Favorite books:
There are so many. In fact too many to list but I will name a few that I have read in the past year: the road, A movable feast, islands in the stream, founding brothers, the great gatsby, the catcher in the rye, in cold blood.
What I'm reading now:
I just finished the Kite Runner -- and I liked it.
I am reading "A farewell to arms" now.
I am reading "A farewell to arms" now.
Title of my memoir:
Life's been good to me so far. (All rights of course to the Eagles).
My other writing:
I am working on a book that I began (sad to say) a few years ago. I get into it for a month...then take a few months off. I really do need to get this done.
What I like to write:
Crime, Human Interest, Literature, Mysteries and Thrillers
Character I'd like to be for a day:
James Bond. But, it would have to be the Sean Connery version (or Daniel Craig) . What's better than saving the world from evil, playing with all sorts of fun gadgets, traveling to exotic places and getting the girl?
Favorite authors:
Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy, Nathaniel Philbrick, Steven King (yes, really), F. Scott Fitzgerald, and many others.
Favorite place to read:
On a lounge chair in the warm sun by a seaside pool with my drink close enough to reach.
My ideal role(s):
A Writer, Devil's advocate, Editor, Feedbacker, Idea person, Reader, Researcher
